US Open Seed Tracker 2026: Which Seeds Are Still Alive

This US Open seed tracker shows how many of the 64 seeds are still alive at Flushing Meadows, updated after every round of the 2026 tournament. Each singles draw starts with 32 seeds. By the second week, most of them are gone.

Count who is left, see which quarter has been hit hardest, and spot who inherits the open path.

US Open 2026 Seed Tracker: Who's Still Alive

Men's Singles

31 of 31 seeds remain

1 Alexander Zverev

2 Carlos Alcaraz

3 Felix Auger-Aliassime

4 Novak Djokovic

5 Flavio Cobolli

6 Alex de Minaur

7 Daniil Medvedev

8 Ben Shelton

9 Taylor Fritz

10 Arthur Fils

11 Frances Tiafoe

12 Rafael Jodar

13 Lorenzo Musetti

14 Learner Tien

15 Alexander Bublik

16 Brandon Nakashima

17 Jakub Menšik

18 Jiri Lehečka

20 Tommy Paul

21 Luciano Darderi

22 Valentin Vacherot

23 Andrey Rublev

24 Francisco Cerundolo

25 Alejandro Tabilo

26 Arthur Rinderknech

27 Tomas Martin Etcheverry

28 Alexander Blockx

29 Cameron Norrie

30 Matteo Arnaldi

31 Zizou Bergs

32 Ignacio Buse

Women's Singles

31 of 32 seeds remain

1 Aryna Sabalenka

2 Elena Rybakina

3 Jessica Pegula

4 Coco Gauff

5 Mirra Andreeva

6 Linda Noskova

7 Karolina Muchova

8 Iga Swiatek

9 Elina Svitolina

10 Amanda Anisimova

11 Marta Kostyuk

12 Belinda Bencic

13 Naomi Osaka

14 Iva Jović

15 Diana Shnaider

16 Sorana Cirstea

17 Alexandra Eala

18 Ekaterina Alexandrova

19 Jasmine Paolini

20 Maja Chwalinska

21 Anna Kalinskaya

22 Madison Keys

23 Elise Mertens

24 Anastasia Potapova

25 Marie Bouzkova

26 Emma Navarro

27 Barbora Krejčikováout Round of 128

28 Sara Bejlek

29 Ann Li

30 Jelena Ostapenko

31 Leylah Fernandez

32 Maria Sakkari

Updates automatically as matches finish.

US Open Seed Tracker: Seeds Left in Each Draw

	Men’s singles	Women’s singles
Seeds still alive	32 of 32	32 of 32
Seeds eliminated	0	0
Highest seed out	None yet	None yet
Current round	First round	First round

The main draw runs from Sunday 30 August to the women’s final on Saturday 12 September and the men’s final on Sunday 13 September. That is six days later than the 2025 edition, which began on 24 August. Every count on this page is checked against the official draw sheets at usopen.org before it is published.

Seeds Lost Before a Ball Was Struck

Five players who would have been seeded never made the draw. Their absence reshaped the seeding list and left gaps that unseeded players walked into.

Player	Ranking	Reason
Jannik Sinner	No. 1	Right knee injury
Victoria Mboko	No. 15	Left knee injury
João Fonseca	No. 26	Abdominal injury
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina	No. 27	Back injury
Ugo Humbert	No. 31	Back injury

Sinner’s absence is the headline. The world No. 1 is the reigning Wimbledon champion and was runner-up here last year, and this is the first major he has missed since his Grand Slam debut in 2019. His withdrawal handed Alexander Zverev the No. 1 seeding and moved every other man up one place.

The Seed Maths, Round by Round

Seeds are spread so that no two can meet before the third round, a placement rule written into the 2026 Official Grand Slam Rule Book. In theory all 32 survive that far. From there the draw does the culling on its own.

Round	Maximum seeds that can survive
Third round	32
Fourth round	16
Quarterfinals	8
Semifinals	4
Final	2

That is why the first two rounds carry all the signal. A seed beaten in round one or two is a real hole in the bracket. A seed beaten in the fourth round was always going to lose to another seed.

Men’s Draw: Eight Seeds per Quarter

Quarter	Seeds	Projected quarterfinal
First	1 Zverev, 6 de Minaur, 12 Jódar, 13 Musetti, 19 Ruud, 21 Darderi, 25 Tabilo, 31 Bergs	Zverev v de Minaur
Second	3 Auger-Aliassime, 5 Cobolli, 9 Fritz, 14 Tien, 17 Menšík, 24 F. Cerúndolo, 28 Blockx, 32 Buse	Auger-Aliassime v Cobolli
Third	4 Djokovic, 7 Medvedev, 11 Tiafoe, 16 Nakashima, 22 Vacherot, 23 Rublev, 26 Rinderknech, 27 Etcheverry	Medvedev v Djokovic
Fourth	2 Alcaraz, 8 Shelton, 10 Fils, 15 Bublik, 18 Lehečka, 20 Paul, 29 Norrie, 30 Arnaldi	Shelton v Alcaraz

Watch the first quarter. Zverev is the top seed only because Sinner is absent, and Sinner beat him in the Wimbledon final in July. He opens against Lorenzo Sonego on Tuesday with just 100 points to defend, having lost in the third round here last year to Felix Auger-Aliassime, who is seeded 3 in the next quarter.

Watch the fourth quarter. Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz plays Roman Safiullin in his first singles match since April. A right wrist injury at the Barcelona Open cost him Roland Garros, Wimbledon, Toronto and Cincinnati. Arthur Fils, who won his first Masters 1000 title in Cincinnati last week, meets Stefanos Tsitsipas on Monday, so a seed in this quarter is at risk on day two. If Alcaraz goes early, this becomes the widest open section in the men’s draw.

Watch the third quarter. Novak Djokovic is chasing a record 25th major and has not won one since the 2023 US Open. He and Daniil Medvedev are set to collide in the quarterfinals. Djokovic and Alcaraz landed in the same half, so they cannot meet before the semifinals.

Women’s Draw: Eight Seeds per Quarter

Quarter	Seeds	Projected quarterfinal
First	1 Sabalenka, 6 Nosková, 11 Kostyuk, 15 Shnaider, 18 Alexandrova, 20 Chwalińska, 27 Krejčíková, 29 Li	Sabalenka v Nosková
Second	3 Pegula, 7 Muchová, 9 Svitolina, 16 Cîrstea, 19 Paolini, 21 Kalinskaya, 26 Navarro, 31 Fernandez	Pegula v Muchová
Third	4 Gauff, 5 Andreeva, 10 Anisimova, 14 Jovic, 17 Eala, 24 Potapova, 28 Bejlek, 30 Ostapenko	Andreeva v Gauff
Fourth	2 Rybakina, 8 Świątek, 12 Bencic, 13 Osaka, 22 Keys, 23 Mertens, 25 Bouzková, 32 Sakkari	Świątek v Rybakina

The fourth quarter is the brutal one. Elena Rybakina, Iga Świątek, Naomi Osaka, Belinda Bencic and Madison Keys share one eighth of the draw. Five past major champions, one quarterfinal place. Rybakina also reaches world No. 1 if she gets to the semifinals, whatever anyone else does.

The third quarter is the deepest. Cincinnati champion Coco Gauff, Mirra Andreeva, Amanda Anisimova, Alexandra Eala, Iva Jovic and Jeļena Ostapenko are all here. Paula Badosa and Daria Kasatkina, both unseeded, meet in round one, and the winner lands in Gauff’s path in round two.

The first quarter belongs to Sabalenka. The two time defending champion starts against Camila Osorio, with Barbora Krejčíková a possible third round test and Wimbledon champion Linda Nosková the projected quarterfinal.

The second quarter has the story match. Venus Williams, 46 and a wild card, plays Sofia Kenin on Sunday night, with Jessica Pegula waiting in round two. Karolína Muchová, who won the mixed doubles title with Jakub Menšík last week, anchors the far end.

Why a Thinned Quarter Predicts the Surprise

A quarter that loses two or three seeds in the first week is the single best clue to an unexpected semifinalist. A low seed or an unseeded player inherits a route that would normally require beating three top 20 opponents.

It changes the sheet in your hand too. One gap on our printable bracket early in the week turns into four blank rounds by the weekend.

Results Behind the US Open Seed Tracker

• Daily results: every completed score, round by round.
• Live scores: matches in progress right now.
• Biggest upsets: the seeded losses, with the stories behind them.
• Full draw: seeds, sections and matchups.
• The players: seed lists, wild cards, qualifiers and withdrawals.

Read this US Open seed tracker for the shape of the draw, not for a single scoreline. The count tells you how much protection is left in each quarter, and the quarter with the fewest seeds standing is usually where the tournament’s story comes from. Updated after every round through to the finals on 12 and 13 September.

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